The Decameron : containing an hundred pleasant nouels : wittily discoursed, betweene seuen honourable ladies and three noble gentlemen.

Inscription on volume 1, leaf A3v: John Saunders his Book, June the Eighth Anno Dmni 1713; inscription on second volume title page: Iohn Sanders, Iuly the Third 1713; eighteenth-century inscription on volume 1, leaf C1r: Tucker Jane; inscription on volume 1, leaf 2I1r: Jane Tucker her book, 1756 July the 5; two eighteenth-century(?) inscriptions (in different hands?) on volume 1, leaf H4v: BBertot[?] his : Daniel Prowse his Book; cropped early inscription on volume 2, leaf 2X3v: [...] the forth[?], [J]ohn Bird; several early inscriptions on volume 2, leaf 3A6, including "John Bird" and "John Burnetyen[?]"; gilt lettering on turn-in of upper board: Ex-libris Brent Gration-Maxfield; pencil instructions to binder on volume 2, leaf 3A6v: Bind in high grained rich dark brown morocco. Tooling as the design on attached sheets. Double gilt rules only for compartments on spine. Titled "Boccaccio's Decameron" with seperate letters. All edges gilt on the rough. Dull down all gilding. End-papers supplied. Do not use any others. Brent Gration-Maxfield, 1974. (Name in border inside front cover); other notes in Gration-Maxfield's hand on first front fly-leaf recto; bookseller's description and correspondence from Whitmore Rare Books, Pasadena, California, now available in MS 466 Box 2 Folder 182.

MSU: Lacking the two blank leaves; one blank leaf tipped inserted between end of volume 1 and beginning of volume 2.

MSU: Volume 1, leaf B1 is a cancel with recto catchword "and".

MSU: Numerous early inscriptions in ink (mostly copying text) on volume one, leaves 2H3v and 2H4r; underlining and other markings in pencil in several locations throughout.

In twentieth-century dark brown morocco, in sixteenth-century style; fived raised bands on spine; gilt stamping and tooling on boards, spine, board edges, and head and tail of spine; gilt lettering on spine; gilt edges.